How to Use self-evident in a Sentence

self-evident

adjective
  • Some of this should be self-evident.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • First, some truths are self-evident.
    — Marc Weiszer, Athens Banner-Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The turnovers are self-evident.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Those seven words ought to be self-evident; a war is a war, after all.
    — Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That used to be self-evident for a starting pitcher, but no longer.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • And if not, there is also the self-evident truth that the knowledge is there.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2025
  • Its problems could take a while to become self-evident.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The matter of where to reach them — online — is self-evident.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In the self-evident truth that all people are created equal, all means all.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But here’s a self-evident truth about the way Biden views the economy.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In the self-evident truth that 'all people are created equal, all means all.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That's kind of self-evident because they're supposed to use the money to build fabs.
    — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Why that’s a problem should be self-evident after the new reports.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In the self-evident truth that 'all people are created equal,' all means all.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • This year, insiders aren’t sure the outcome will be so self-evident.
    — Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • At least, in the fall of 2016, the answer still seemed self-evident.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
  • In 2026, not all truths appear to be self-evident.
    — Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • These assertions are self-evident but fishy.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The answer to a better way forward may seem self-evident—on the surface.
    — Jay Hakami, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The appeal for Swatch is also self-evident.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • When scenes that happen years apart are juxtaposed, the meaning is self-evident.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • In the worlds le Carré created, truths are rarely self-evident.
    — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Wall Street loves gridlock so that’s just a huge win for the market, although that’s not yet self-evident.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 July 2024
  • What seems self-evident to you may, in fact, be considered inventive.
    — Paul Moutzouris, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The need to regulate is often self-evident.
    — Doug McCauley, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • This essay is itself a form of web weaving, composed of threads both self-evident and subsumed.
    — Vivian Lam, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That these sayings are meant to reflect something both deep and asinine about the film itself is self-evident.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
  • These were self-evident rules, and the women followed them piously.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The demand is clearly self-evident.
    — Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But most of the records had long been available; the big difference here is that some of the (mostly self-evident) names and sources are revealed.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025

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